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How BetConstruct is boosting the bookmaker offer with in-house esports

SBC News How BetConstruct is boosting the bookmaker offer with in-house esports

Esports is continuing to develop a strong connection with the betting industry, with countless companies now initiating strategies to maximise the sector’s potential. BetConstruct is one such firm finding a niche opportunity in this growing market. The iGaming solutions provider has its own in-house esports division, allowing bookmakers to offer esports to its customers throughout the day. The company’s head …

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No matches, no problem: Sportradar delivers year-round MLB engagement

MLB

At an exclusive roundtable meeting last summer, SBC Magazine learned that Sportradar and Major League Baseball (MLB) would be developing and distributing exciting new products, which included an extension of the in-game betting markets available. However, we were unaware at the time that this official data partnership would produce a new virtual baseball offering for licensed gaming operators in the …

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AgiproNews Italian View – Retail lockdown sees betting face months of trauma

SBC News AgiproNews Italian View – Retail lockdown sees betting face months of trauma

Complying with the Italian government’s ‘Public Health Decree’ sanctioned on Sunday 8 March, Italian gambling has officially gone into lockdown. The country at the centre of Europe’s COVID-19 pandemic has seen all retailers ordered to temporarily shut apart from food stores and pharmacies, as PM Giuseppe Conte enforces the toughest public stance minimising the spread of the virus and its …

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Smita Saxena: Stanza – Making time count in the age of constant disruption

SBC News Smita Saxena: Stanza - Making time count in the age of constant disruption

Betting enters a new decade, in which its product propositions and engagement capacities will be yet again tested by changing consumer demands. Facing disruptions, SBC spoke to Smita Saxena Founder and CEO of Stanza, a fast-growth Silicon Valley enterprise seeking to revolutionise all dynamics related to user scheduling and time-keeping.  Stanza has proven its engagement dynamics for US sports leagues …

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PAM you don’t build, you buy it off the shelf – The five-stage ‘rethink’ driving Pragmatic Solutions success

PAM

There’s no need to build a player account management platform (PAM) for your own business because it can take years and there’s no guarantee of success, said Mark Woollard, Business Development Director at Pragmatic Solutions, iGaming Platform. Woollard (pictured above) explained: “There’s no inherent value in PAM – either it does what it needs to do, in which case you’ll …

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Jordan Levin, Scientific Games: The right time to ramp up Golden Nugget relationship

Golden Nugget

Two weeks ago, we learned that Scientific Games (SG) had extended a long-standing gaming partnership with Golden Nugget to deliver sports betting through OpenSports. The deployment of OpenSports will start with mobile sports betting in New Jersey (NJ) with additional states included pending regulation. There is also an option to roll out the product in retail locations across multiple states. …

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NSoft or strict rules: Outcome-based vs prescriptive regulation

NSoft

Zlatan Omerspahic, Head of Legal and Compliance at NSoft, delivers a regulatory overview of the gambling industry, including key learning points from 2019 and what to expect in 2020. It is very difficult to find an industry that is changing as fast as the gambling industry, due to all the technological changes. Also, the existence of generally strict rules provides …

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Countdown to Cheltenham: Ladbrokes on why The Festival is ‘a huge battleground’ for betting promotions

SBC News Countdown to Cheltenham: Ladbrokes on why The Festival is ‘a huge battleground’ for betting promotions

With only one more day to go until Jump racing’s biggest event of the year, SBC has continued the Countdown to Cheltenham by quizzing Nicola McGeady, Head of PR at Ladbrokes. She outlined the top runners and riders to keep a close eye on, and explained why punters can expect an even bigger range of competing promotional offers. SBC: Three …

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